Submissions are OPEN to 18 October 2024

Our submission window for the Out-Spoken Press 2025–26 publishing schedule, for both full poetry collections and pamphlets under the editorship of Anthony Anaxagorou, is now OPEN until midnight UK, Friday 18 October 2024.

Standard Submissions Guidelines

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

Out-Spoken Press are now open for poetry submissions, for both full collections and pamphlets for our 2025–6 publishing schedule under the Editorship of Anthony Anaxagorou. At this stage we're looking for a sample of your poems, together with a one-page covering letter, where you can tell us a bit about yourself (including any publication history) and your work.
Anthony will review each of these and will select those from whom we will request to see further work or a full manuscript.

HOW TO SUBMIT

Please upload the following to our Submittable:

a sample of 3–5 poems, in PDF format; and
a short covering letter (no longer than a single side) with a brief bio, introducing us to who you are and the types of themes or concerns you see your work exploring.

Please title your poem attachment "[YOUR NAME]:[pamphlet/collection]submission" (delete as applicable) and your cover letter "[YOUR NAME]:cover letter".

All submissions will be reviewed by the Editor.

We do not charge submission fees.

Publishing with Out-Spoken Press

We typically publish only 6–9 books each year, to enable us to give each title the attention it deserves. If your work is selected for publication, you will work closely with your Editor to ensure your manuscript is in the best possible shape for publication.

You will be provided with a publishing contract, with a manuscript delivery date, together with a comprehensive Author Handbook, setting out the timeline to publication, the various stages of the publishing process, and what you can expect from us. We pay royalties at a competitive percentage of net income from book sales.

We distribute via BookSource, via Inpress, and all of our titles are made available as ebooks as well as physical books.

Since its founding in 2016, Out-Spoken Press has focused on platforming diverse new voices, particularly through early-career support of writers who have gone on to more mainstream success, including Joelle Taylor, Raymond Antrobus, Sabrina Mahfouz, and Harry Josephine Giles. Press titles have won the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, been shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio and Forward Prizes, been Poetry Book Society Choice, and longlisted for National Jewish Book Awards and the Polari Prize.